Funding profile · Life science research software
Biodock
One announced round in five years, no Regulation D notice on file, and a reported total that is $1.7 million larger than anything the company has ever announced.
$2.1MPre-seed announced March 2021, company-stated
$3.8MTotal raised over five years, founder-stated January 2026
$0Reported to the SEC on any Form D
1Announced financing events since founding in 2020
Data as of September 23, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.
Rounds at a glance
| When | Round | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Not disclosed | Y Combinator | YC listing |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Pre-seed | $2.1M announced | Led by Andreessen Horowitz; TQ Ventures, Soma Capital; angels John Curtius and Zach Weinberg | Company release |
| Recalled 2026 | Same round, restated | $2.2M | Same lead | Differs by $100K |
| Before 2021 | Grant, described by the founder as from the National Science Foundation | Not disclosed | NSF | No NSF award found |
| 2021 to 2026 | No announced round | Gap of $1.7M to the reported total | None named | Not found |
| Jan 2026 | Cumulative total, founder-stated | $3.8M | Not broken out | Interview |
What the filings show
Biodock, Inc. · no Form D found · searched Sep 23, 2026
- Registrant
- No EDGAR company record matching the name
- Full text search
- Zero documents of any form type contain the term
- Form D notices
- None
- Investment vehicles
- No SPV or fund series named for the company
- Federal awards
- No NSF award, no NIH award, no SBIR record under the company name
- Regulatory
- No FDA 510(k) or PMA, no registered clinical trial
- Source
- SEC EDGAR, NSF awards API, NIH RePORTER, FDA and ClinicalTrials.gov
Reading the filings
- The absence of a Form D is not proof of nothing.A $2.1 million priced round can be sold under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, which carries no Regulation D notice requirement. What the absence does mean is that no investor count, no offering size, no first sale date and no related person list exists in any public file for this company. Every capital figure here traces back to the company or its founder.
- The announcement and the founder disagree by $100,000.The March 30, 2021 blog post says $2.1 million. In January 2026 the founder told Digital Business “We raised $2.2 million in that round.” Neither number is filed anywhere. On a round this size the discrepancy is 4.8 percent, which is the size of a late angel check or a rounding habit, not a material restatement.
- $1.7 million has no announcement attached.Take the founder’s January 2026 total of $3.8 million and subtract the announced pre-seed of $2.1 million. The remainder is $1.7 million, roughly 45 percent of all capital, raised across five years with no press release, no Form D and no named investor. A grant, a bridge note, a safe extension or revenue reinvested are all consistent with the record. So is nothing at all beyond the founder’s arithmetic.
- The grant the federal record does not carry.The founder says he and his co-founder received a National Science Foundation grant before settling on the idea. A search of the NSF awards database for the company name returns no awards, and NIH RePORTER returns none. If it exists it sits under a university or personal name, common for Stanford work, but it is not on the company’s name in any record we can read.
- Two data vendors disagree about revenue by a factor of two to four.GetLatka carries an estimate of $1.2 million of annual revenue for 2024 and lists funding as $0. Extruct carries a range of $2 million to $5 million. Both are models, not disclosures, and one of them shows $0 raised for a company that announced $2.1 million from Andreessen Horowitz.
- The headcount and the geography moved together.The founder put the team at around ten people in January 2026. Data vendors show eight. The open engineering roles on the Y Combinator listing are posted in Astana, Kazakhstan and remote across Central Asia, with bands from $18K to $50K. With one announced round and no visible follow-on, moving engineering to a lower cost base is what keeps a small team funded off revenue.
Commercial signals
| Signal | Detail | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Named customer | Vaxxas Pty Ltd. A 2023 paper discloses that Biodock “carried out work for the study on a contract basis paid by Vaxxas Pty Ltd”. This is the only customer named in a primary source. | Public record |
| Independent usage | 29 peer reviewed papers verified as using the platform, 2022 to 2026, in PNAS, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Molecular Cell, eLife, Acta Neuropathologica and others. | Public record |
| Installed base | Over 5,000 labs worldwide, founder-stated January 2026. Hundreds of institutions, company-stated March 2021. | Company-stated |
| Other named accounts | Genentech and CSL Behring appear on a third party startup directory. No primary source found. | Unverified |
| Model | Annual licenses to large companies priced on data volume and task complexity, plus a free academic allowance and a paid academic tier added in August 2026. | Company-stated |
| Profitability | “Biodock is a software product, so we could be profitable pretty soon. But right now, our main goal is growing the product.” | Interview |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II asserted, AWS hosting, annual penetration tests. No audit report public. | Company-stated |
What to watch
- A first Form D. It would be the first machine readable number this company has ever produced.
- Any breakdown of the $1.7 million between the announced round and the reported total.
- Confirmation of an enterprise account beyond Vaxxas from a release, a filing or a paper.
- Whether the citation rate, weighted to 2025 and 2026, converts into paid seats or stays academic goodwill.
- Whether the August 2026 rebuild and the paid academic tier show up as a pricing page rather than a sales call.
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Related companies
Sources
- Public recordSEC EDGAR full text search and company search for Biodock, zero results
- Public recordNSF awards database query for Biodock, zero awards
- Public recordEurope PMC literature search for Biodock, 57 records
- Public recordEvaluation of the self-administration potential of high-density microarray patches to human skin, disclosure statement naming Vaxxas
- IndependentKazakh scientist moves to the US and builds a biotech startup that’s already raised $3.8 million
- IndependentBiodock revenue and team estimates
- IndependentBiodock funding and revenue profile, $2M to $5M estimate
- IndependentBiodock organization profile
- CompanyAnnouncing Biodock’s pre-seed round
- CompanyThe new Biodock is live, including the new academic tier
- CompanyBiodock company page and open roles in Astana
- CompanyBiodock security page
Compiled from SEC, NSF, NIH, FDA and Europe PMC public records and published reports as of September 23, 2026. No Form D notice has been filed by or for this company, so every capital figure on this page originates with the company or its founder. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in Biodock. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.
